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A Roman city’s splendours emerge while it’s still underground

Radar shows the surprisingly complex architecture of Falerii Novi, a now-buried settlement founded in 241 BC.
GPR survey results from Falerii Novi by depth slice.

A series of ground-penetrating radar images of a buried Roman town shows the bath complex (bright-white blob, lower left) and theatre (semi-circular arch, lower right) Credit: L. Verdonck et al./Antiquity

Archaeologists have revealed the public baths, monuments and other grand structures of a buried Roman city — without having to dig it up.

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Nature 582, 317 (2020)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-01737-3

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